...,.~. Thursday, May 1, 1958 LOOKING BACKWAR From the Granite Falls Record March 23, 1923 C. R. Bockmier has received this appointment as postmaster of Granite Falls and is taking the initiatory degrees under Post— master Carpenter. April 6, 1923 The Granite Falls post office was broken into by burglars early the previous Saturday morning. An explosion in the post office awakened many residents, in— cluding Postmaster D I. Carpen— ter and his wife Florence. Mrs. Carpenter, armed with an aid .22 caliber revolver, and her husband with an unloaded rifle, approached the post office, and _Mrs. Carpenter fired a few shots from her gun, which scared oft the three men engaged robbery attempt before gained entrance to the 0f the safe. which car considerable amounz of money. The criminals escaped in a car which they had parked at the rear of Ashes garage. they had interior April 27, ’23—}Irs. Joe Mueller has purchased a Willys Knight sedan. new The lumber mills camps are closed on another strike. and logging account of The Story Lumber Co. has in- stalled a Fordson tractor with a M.R,C. hoist for logging, Ashe's Garage selling the outfit and in— stalling it. The 1923 graduating class of Granite Falls High school con— sisted of: Eugenia Crook, Ruth Curtis, Zora Hall, Pearl Harko- nen, Beatrice Jones, Nellie Lewis, Genevieve Spencer, Mary Watson, Adolph Bertilsan and Helen Cole. July 6, ’23—Miss Anna Pugh, tOWIn treasurer and town librar- ian, left Saturday for a pleasure “trip, to be away ten days, dur- ing which time the library will in the. he closed, , Author: , Accession/Object ID: 2005.56.27, Object Name: Newspaper, Title: , Description: Article printed in 1958 describing what happened 35 years ago in Granite Falls - 1923, OCR Text: ...,.~. Thursday, May 1, 1958 LOOKING BACKWAR From the Granite Falls Record March 23, 1923 C. R. Bockmier has received this appointment as postmaster of Granite Falls and is taking the initiatory degrees under Post— master Carpenter. April 6, 1923 The Granite Falls post office was broken into by burglars early the previous Saturday morning. An explosion in the post office awakened many residents, in— cluding Postmaster D I. Carpen— ter and his wife Florence. Mrs. Carpenter, armed with an aid .22 caliber revolver, and her husband with an unloaded rifle, approached the post office, and _Mrs. Carpenter fired a few shots from her gun, which scared oft the three men engaged robbery attempt before gained entrance to the 0f the safe. which car considerable amounz of money. The criminals escaped in a car which they had parked at the rear of Ashes garage. they had interior April 27, ’23—}Irs. Joe Mueller has purchased a Willys Knight sedan. new The lumber mills camps are closed on another strike. and logging account of The Story Lumber Co. has in- stalled a Fordson tractor with a M.R,C. hoist for logging, Ashe's Garage selling the outfit and in— stalling it. The 1923 graduating class of Granite Falls High school con— sisted of: Eugenia Crook, Ruth Curtis, Zora Hall, Pearl Harko- nen, Beatrice Jones, Nellie Lewis, Genevieve Spencer, Mary Watson, Adolph Bertilsan and Helen Cole. July 6, ’23—Miss Anna Pugh, tOWIn treasurer and town librar- ian, left Saturday for a pleasure “trip, to be away ten days, dur- ing which time the library will in the. he closed, , Granite Falls Historical Society,Documents (articles, clippings, letters, papers),General Articles & Documents,General Articles,General Articles 05,Newspaper (2005.56.27),Newspaper (2005.56.27) 1, Newspaper (2005.56.27) 1